Don't really have any art to show right now, but last weekend I visited the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and had a portfolio review up there, and today I got an email from them saying that they've accepted my portfolio for admissions and was "identified as a strong candidate for merit scholarship", which I'm really excited about! I guess the whole point of this is that you can look back in my old thread which was linked earlier here and you can kind of see how if you just put in the hours, you can really do anything.

follow your dreams :0

Anyway I don't want to not post a picture so here's a landscape study I did for like 30 minutes before bed

Back with more stuff! Last saturday I attended a monoprint workshop up at the school. A monoprint, if you didn't know, is a type of print made by painting on a piece of plastic, and the pressing the piece of plastic onto a wet piece of paper. Unlike most other kinds of printing, it cannot make multiple copies, hence the name.

I'd really like to do a charcoal drawing of this, as I really wasn't satisfied with how a lot of the shading turned out, but so be it.

I've also been working on an acrylic painting that's rather large (about 2x3 feet!). I kind of like the idea of a bone wrapped in a ribbon, and I really don't know why. Probably something to do with a fleet foxes song I've been listening to too much :S

At 12/16/13 11:54 PM, DemocracyFTW wrote:
I'm still doing art you guys! Also today I found out that I've been accepted into MICA, and also won a merit based scholarship! Yipeee

Anyway this is something in the works. I'll have more junk tomorrow when it's not 11 oclock and finals week ahah

Looks boss. I have a weakness for sword designs and sketches of blades and such.
Scratch that: any drawn concepts for weaponry falls into my favoured category of art. :D

The hilt could use some work, it looks a little uneven in comparison to the rest of the sword. The scratches and worn, chipped edges on the blade are a neat touch, good job!

Like you said though, it's still in progress and I think the foundations for a killer piece are in place. Also, I thought of Metastable-Steve's art when I saw some pieces on this thread (the skull in the centre of the halved head, for example), and then I saw that it was the man himself who scouted you. :D
Keep up the art, friend, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, and take care.
-Potent